The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan

An account of rural and agricultural life in Japan in the early 1900s. It also provides information about farming, courtship, marriage, child-rearing, health care, folk religion and funeral customs in the late Meiji era, when Japan's transformation from an agrarian to an industrial society was in its initial phase.

• | By (Author): Nagatsuka Takashi
• | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• | Publication Date: Sep 09, 2010
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 204 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0415594014
• | ISBN-13: 9780415594011